tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66356563131207680072024-02-18T20:33:05.189-08:00Eamon DuffinEamonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08326343248290785012noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635656313120768007.post-9228886194362394072011-06-04T13:17:00.000-07:002011-06-04T13:17:13.821-07:00Fair Land Lost<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Are you the one that blocked the sun?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That fired the bullet from the gun</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That laughed aloud at what you’d done</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To this fair land that cash built</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That sat on high upon your throne</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Surveying what you bought and owned</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unhearing of the anguished moans</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of this fair land that cash built</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Was it you that sowed the seed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nurtured it with savage greed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Watched it grow to barb clad weed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this fair land that cash built</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did you set the tiger free</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To spread disease and malady</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Then killed it with unbridled glee</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this fair land that cash built</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did you cast your mantle dark</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Extinguish love and caring heart</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And dance upon the final spark</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of this fair land that cash built</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You put Cuchulain’s name to shame</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sold you’re soul for foolish gain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On you’re children ladled pain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this fair land that cash built</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">© E. Duffin November 2010</span></div>Eamonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08326343248290785012noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6635656313120768007.post-41495404635326072492011-06-03T05:47:00.000-07:002011-06-03T05:47:01.161-07:00August 1958<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">A poem about my first trip to Tramore Seaside Resort on the 15th August 1958</span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">Loud the noise and swift the speed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">The bumper cars are sparking</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Galloping horses round and round<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Evening sky is darkening<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Helter skelter bedecked with lights<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The swing boats higher and higher<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One minute I was a rodeo star<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The next I was a flier<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Candy floss tickled my nose<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My throat with sugar burst<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Lemon soda, bottled, cold<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Quenched a young boy’s thirst<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The blackjack, the roulette wheel<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Two shilling’s sir on red’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">‘I’ve lost, I’ve won’, shout the men<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">With joy, with hope, with dread<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">Smell and noise and being there</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Filled me full to bursting<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">What next, this or this or that<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My last shilling I was nursing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">Spectrum stars of flashing light</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">My senses they were soaring<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">More fizzy drink and candy floss<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Please, please’, I was imploring<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Too soon it all came to an end<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Departure time came calling<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh I was young that August day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">Youth I never tire recalling</span><br />
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